万花筒 2008-08-29&08-31 希拉里力挺奥巴马

First we wanna talk about Hillary Clinton’s big night. How did it go, it will be analyzed¹ all day long. NBC’s chief White House correspondent David Gregory is here in the Convention Center and he’s got more on that. David, good morning to you.

 

Good morning, Matt. In a rousing speech, Senator Clinton sought to unite the party behind Barack Obama, even if she took pains to preserve her own political future.

 

She showed up and brought the house down, in the final chapter of her own historic race for the White House, Senator Clinton said the words Barack Obama needed to hear.

 

And whether you voted for me or you voted for Barack, the time is now, to unite as a single party with a single purpose. Barack Obama is my candidate, and he must be our president.

 

During the campaign, she complained about sexism, but at the convention she was more playful when speaking to her staunchest supporters. 

 

To my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

 

But with lingering doubts about whether her backers would line up behind Obama, Clinton says to the issues at stake in this election were too big to sit on the sidelines.

 

I want you to ask yourselves, were you in this campaign just for me?

 

He husband looked on with obvious pride, as she rallied democrats² by reminding them about the economic accomplishments³ of his presidency⁴.

 

As I recall, we did it before with President Clinton and the democrats, and if we do our part, we’ll do it again with President Obama and the democrats.

 

The former president speaks tonight, amid concerns within the party that he has not yet got over his wife’s loss.

 

This was not just a signal to her supporters, but maybe a signal to her husband too that the time has come to go all out for Barack Obama.

 

Republicans are working to court Clinton’s supporters this week by reminding them of her attacks against Obama during the primaries.

 

I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he’ll bring to the White House, and Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

 

But Senator Clinton made her wishes clear.

 

No way, no how, no McCain

 

She argued that a president McCain would represent more of the Bush years, more war, more job losses, more inadequate⁵ health care coverage⁶.

 

It makes perfect sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the twin cities because these days they are awfully⁷ hard to tell apart.

 

When it was over, Senator Obama campaigning in Montana called the Clintons, and pronounced himself satisfied and grateful.

 

I think she made the case for why we are gonna be unified⁸ in November and why we are gonna win this election. I know she was outstanding.

 

Tonight, a test of this new found unity⁹ on the convention floor, Hillary Clinton’s name will be put into nomination¹⁰, so that her supporters, delegates here at the convention can’t vote for her for president. But she herself is expected the cut-off that voting at some point, so that Barack Obama can officially be named the nominee¹¹ by acclamation or unanimous consent. Matt.

 

Alright, David, thanks very much, David Gregory here in Denver with us.

 

1 analyzed   

v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析

参考例句：

• The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 accomplishments   

n.造诣；完成( accomplishment的名词复数 )；技能；成绩；成就

参考例句：

• It was one of the President's greatest accomplishments. 那是总统最伟大的成就之一。
• Among her accomplishments were sewing,cooking,playing the piano and dancing. 她的才能包括缝纫、烹调、弹钢琴和跳舞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

5 inadequate   

adj.(for,to)不充足的，不适当的

参考例句：

• The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
• She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。

6 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

7 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

8 unified   

(unify 的过去式和过去分词)； 统一的； 统一标准的； 一元化的

参考例句：

• The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
• The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。

9 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

10 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

11 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。